Papers with language technology applications
Multilingual Extension of PDTB-Style Annotation: The Case of TED Multilingual Discourse Bank (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing corpora enriched with discourse annotations are scarce but exist . TED-MDB is hoped to be a source of parallel data for contrastive linguistic analysis and language technology applications. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual discourse treebank to provide a clear description of discourse structure and semantics in multiple languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus provides a clearly described level of discourse structure and semantics in multiple languages. |
NB Uttale: A Norwegian Pronunciation Lexicon with Dialect Variation (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | lexicon is based on the NST Bokml lexiconic for East Norwegian . lexica are an essential linguistic resource in speech recognition and speech synthesis systems . |
| Approach: | They propose to use Bokml orthographic word forms and up to eight alternate phonological transcriptions per word form to generate a Norwegian pronunciation lexicon. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the accuracy of the proposed model and its outputs with word- and phoneme-error-rate metrics. |